Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ElmapiCMS v3.2
Self-hosted headless cms for building content apis
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Strapi 5▲353Headless CMS designed for customization and performance
2024 · strapi.io · its alternatives →
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an agentic cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls. - microfeed/microfeed
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a developer and long-time OSS contributor. Over the years, I've implemented tons of headless CMSs to give product and marketing teams more autonomy. But there's always been a gap with CMSs when it comes to user interfaces. I kept running into the same issues: poor developer experience, bad performance, no support for dynamic content, and needing vendors for AB testing or personalization, which just gets messy and expensive. Versioning? One change and things break or need manual fixes. Accessing your own data? Good luck unless you're ready to pay extra. So, I built a content API…
2024 · docs.croct.com · its alternatives →
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Croct▲387We just launched Croct Templates, a way to drop CMS-powered components into your app with a single command. It's like Shadcn, but for CMS, AB testing and personalization: * Built-in support for A/B testing, content editing, and dynamic logic * Works with existing projects (Next.js, React, etc.) * Supports community libraries via `npm://`, `shadcn-ui://`, etc. Example: ```bash npx croct@latest use shadcn-ui://block/pricing-page ``` Happy to answer any questions!
2025 · croct.com · its alternatives →
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Open source, dev-friendly and powered by GraphQL and React
2019 · webiny.com · its alternatives →
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The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
2017 · sanity.io · its alternatives →
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Contentrain▲218Headless CMS that combines Git & Serverless platforms
2024 · contentrain.io · its alternatives →
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Next-gen headless CMS: unlock your content's full potential
2024 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →
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Cosmic is the managed headless CMS for content teams. Editors publish without tickets. One platform across sites, brands, and locales.
2019 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →
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Simple Content Platform to manage any structured content
2014 · getcockpit.com · its alternatives →
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I built µJS because I wanted AJAX navigation without the verbosity of HTMX or the overhead of Turbo. It intercepts links and form submissions, fetches pages via AJAX, and swaps fragments of the DOM. Single tag, one call to `mu.init()`. No build step, no dependencies. Key features: patch mode (update multiple fragments in one request), SSE support, DOM morphing via idiomorph, View Transitions, prefetch on hover, polling, and full HTTP verb support on any element. At ~5KB gzipped, it's smaller than HTMX (16KB) and Turbo (25KB), and works with any backend: PHP, Python, Go, Ruby, whatever.…
Mar 2026 · mujs.org · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS▲143Developer-first TypeScript & React headless CMS
2021 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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a client-side CMS for editing GitHub Markdown (and other) files - fiatjaf/coisas
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…
2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →
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*API v2 JavaScript client for Cosmic. See important message in README - cosmicjs/cosmicjs-node
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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